Questions & Mysteries Was TOEI's decision to put the anime on break,connected to Oda's situation?

ShinichiMugi

ShinichiMugi

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Lets play detective here,and connect some dots..


When,around a month ago,Toei announced the decision to put the anime on break until April 2025,it was surely a surprising decision. It almost never happens that an anime that is not seasonal takes a break this long. Not even during Covid in 2020,or during the hacking on their servers in 2022,they took a break this long.
But what if,it was something "forced"? Maybe they know something we dont know?
If Shueisha got to know that Oda in the last few months got very sick,and he will probably manage to release only like 1 chapter per month in the next months/years (even if One Piece will never become officially monthly),they probably,for correctness,warned Toei about it,telling them "Look,the situation is not good. You may want to take some time before you reach the manga chapters too fast!.
So maybe Toei,knowing Oda's bad situation since the last few months (weeks/months before we as readers got to know it) decided for the strategy to put the anime on a break,knowing that,otherwise,they would have run out of material very soon. So they made this "edited version of Fishman Island" that doesnt sound like something people were asking for,at all.
Who knows? Maybe it went like this,maybe not.
 
thedarkdragon11

thedarkdragon11

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Obviously, it will always does... So as the recaps we were previously getting instead of a filler arc...

I mean, if Oda fails to deliver manga outputs then there will always be gaps in the anime production that needs to be filled... Unfortunately, the manga is almost running out of new chapters due to slow production (increasing Oda break, WSJ break, holiday break) and the anime is almost catching up... And I think they don't want to create filler arcs anymore...

Nothing against the FI Log, but I wonder why they didn't chose to animate the cover stories..
 
NotTommy

NotTommy

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No clue, but the anime going on breaks after big arcs or collections of arcs could at least help with the pacing if that's the intention. I don't know beyond that, Oda's making the breaks a consistent thing, but I don't think it'll get worse or anything like that, probably just the anime side adjusting to the slower release and that's that if I had to guess.
 
Rumble

Rumble

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Oda's health contributes to how many chapters ahead the manga will remain, so that's always a factor.

I think the bigger factors are down to availability and market opportunities.

Animators get paid like shit. The quality of animation in a show is almost never down to labour costs so much as scheduling. Adequate scheduling allows animators to do their best work in a sustainable, reasonable matter (supposedly).

The longer One Piece goes on, the more important it becomes to sustain and entice viewers. High quality animation is a way of doing that, and not just with One Piece, so high production values are becoming more and more common. It's an investment.

TOEI clearly went all out with Wano, and the animation quality has gone over incredibly well.

However, a drawback of this current environment - for TOEI that is - is that animators with time get to show off their skills, thereby building up their portfolio and profile, and attracting opportunities to work on other projects.

Considering how much time the craft takes, it's easy to understand why many animators rotate between projects and franchises, meaning scheduling their services for One Piece specifically will have to contend with these realities.

Quality control is the main driving reason for this break, moreso than Oda's health.
 
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thisnewtechnique

thisnewtechnique

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ShinichiMugi said:
Lets play detective here,and connect some dots..


When,around a month ago,Toei announced the decision to put the anime on break until April 2025,it was surely a surprising decision. It almost never happens that an anime that is not seasonal takes a break this long. Not even during Covid in 2020,or during the hacking on their servers in 2022,they took a break this long.
But what if,it was something "forced"? Maybe they know something we dont know?
If Shueisha got to know that Oda in the last few months got very sick,and he will probably manage to release only like 1 chapter per month in the next months/years (even if One Piece will never become officially monthly),they probably,for correctness,warned Toei about it,telling them "Look,the situation is not good. You may want to take some time before you reach the manga chapters too fast!.
So maybe Toei,knowing Oda's bad situation since the last few months (weeks/months before we as readers got to know it) decided for the strategy to put the anime on a break,knowing that,otherwise,they would have run out of material very soon. So they made this "edited version of Fishman Island" that doesnt sound like something people were asking for,at all.
Who knows? Maybe it went like this,maybe not.
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It sounds like hes struggling with the way the manga is going on...
 
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